'All We Imagine As Light' wins best feature, Diljit Dosanjh best actor at Critics Choice Awards

Update: 2025-03-26 07:31 GMT

Mumbai: Payal Kapadia's acclaimed directorial "All We Imagine As Light" emerged as the ‘Best Feature Film’ winner at the 7th Critics Choice Awards.

Actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh won ‘Best Actor’ award for his role in "Amar Singh Chamkila" and Darshana Rajendran bagged ‘Best Actress’ for her performance in "Paradise" at the awards presentation here Tuesday night.

Other winners include Ravi Kishan as ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for "Laapataa Ladies" and Kani Kusruti, who won ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for "Girls Will Be Girls".

"I dedicate this award to 'Amar Singh Chamkila' and to Imtiaz sir, who brought this beautiful film to life. I just had the chance to be a part of it was entirely Imtiaz sir’s hard work. A big thank you to the entire cast and crew of the film," Dosanjh was quoted as saying in a press release.

Kapadia, who also won the ‘Best Director’ award, expressed her gratitude for another acknowledgement.

"This year has been filled with incredible films and it means so much to be among such inspiring filmmakers. The awards hold a special place in my heart, as so many critics have been wonderfully supportive of 'All We Imagine as Light'. Thank you for supporting our film every step of the way.”

"Poacher", the drama series from Richie Mehta, won ‘Best Web Series’ and got Nimisha Sajayan, the lead actor of the project the ‘Best Actress’ award in the web series category. Barun Sobti took the ‘Best Actor in Web Series’ award for his work in "Raat Jawaan Hai".

"It’s an honour to have our series ‘Poacher’ be awarded by the critics, as it was a series made with immense love and passion, by so many, to honour the guardians of all species, who themselves are never recognised," Mehta said on the win.

The latest edition also introduced a new ‘Best Documentary’ category, "Nocturnes" emerged as the winner.

Among others, Shivkumar V Panicker won ‘Best Editing’ award for "Kill", Anand Ekarshi got ‘Best Writing’ award for "Aattam" and Ranabir Das for ‘Best Cinematography’ in "All We Imagine As Light".

"Obur" became the ‘Best Short Film’ and Faraz Ali got ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Writing’ for it. Harish Khanna took ‘Best Actor in Short Film’ category award for his work in "Jal Tu Jalaal Tu" and Jyoti Dogra got ‘Best Actress’ for her role in "Taak". ‘Best Cinematography’ award went to Anand Bansal for "Obur".

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